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Henry James has long been recognized as one of the most important theorists of the novel. His extensive reflections on fiction, together with his overriding concern with questions of ethics, explains why his work is of such of importance to contemporary novelists, such as Rachel Cusk, Maggie Nelson, and Ali Smith. But no critic has […]
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The 1890s were not very far in the rearview mirror when Holbrook Jackson published The Eighteen-Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1913), the first of many early twentieth-century attempts to capture the spirit of the nineteenth century’s tumultuous final decade. Unlike later works that often conflated decadence […]
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London, 1592-93. Plague ravaged the city. Unemployment spiked. Angry apprentices took to the streets. To stem the spread of disease and unrest, the authorities shut down the theaters for over a year. Popular resentment soon turned to an all-too-familiar scapegoat: immigrants. The primary targets were Dutch and French refugees from the European wars of religion. […]
Read MoreWhat is required for people to see race or racial difference? When do people notice either? Beyond that, what does it take for people to become aware of pervasive global anti-Blackness? And what is required for them to acknowledge racism and its centuries-old effects? Is it a little Black girl’s beautiful dark skin and afro […]
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When Shakespeare Survey began publishing its annual yearbook of criticism, interpretation, and performance in 1948, computer technology was in flux. Transistors were the new invention (1947). The first commercial digital computers, the Z4, were produced in 1950; Grace Hopper, the First Lady of Software, wrote the first computer language in 1953; and the integrated circuit […]
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In May 2000, the Global Change Newsletter featured a brief note of just over a page which in retrospect has emerged as one of the most important texts of the new millennium. In the short article, the two authors, Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer, argue that humanity’s impact on the planet has grown so […]
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When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in March 2022, Shakespeare’s Hamlet was repeatedly used by theatre makers, scholars, and political leaders to express the existential threat faced by Ukrainians and to provoke debate about Western involvement in the crisis. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed, in an address to the British parliament on 8 March, that ‘the question for us […]
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Since the first uses of the term in the 1970s, the graphic novel has been a concept in constant debate and evolution, capturing the new developments and mutations of comics across the last decades, alongside the concerns and enthusiasms such changes generate. At times blindly embraced, at other times vehemently rejected, the term has now […]
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